Search for dissertations about: "user involvement"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 91 swedish dissertations containing the words user involvement.

  2. 11. User involvement in service design teams : Investigating the effect of involving users in ideation of library services

    Author : Jakob Trischler; Southern Cross University; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business Administration; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis research tested active user involvement in service design teams and explored its impact on the design process and its outcomes. It was found that not only the form of user involvement matters in service design but that particularly the characteristics of the involved users can impact on team performance and the development of design ideas in terms of user value, feasibility, and originality. READ MORE

  4. 12. User Consideration in Early Stages of Product Development : Theories and Methods

    Author : Jenny Janhager; Margareta Norell Bergendahl; MariAnne Karlsson; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Engineering design; Man-machine interaction; product development method; scenario technique; technical process; user; Konstruktionsteknik; Construction engineering; Konstruktionsteknik;

    Abstract : Traditional design theories have focused on technical functions and more or less disregard a product’s user involvement. The existing methods of ergonomic designare mostly intended for analysis activities. There is a need for new dynamic methods that focus on user-product interactions. READ MORE

  5. 13. Fostering User Involvement in Ontology Alignment and Alignment Evaluation

    Author : Valentina Ivanova; Patrick Lambrix; Nahid Shahmehri; Fabien Gandon; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Knowledge representation; ontology; ontology engineering; ontology debugging; ontology matching; ontology matching evaluation; user interfaces; human-computer interaction; large and high-resolution displays;

    Abstract : The abundance of data at our disposal empowers data-driven applications and decision making. The knowledge captured in the data, however, has not been utilized to full potential, as it is only accessible to human interpretation and data are distributed in heterogeneous repositories. READ MORE

  6. 14. The Customer's Role in New Service Development

    Author : Bodil Sandén; Anders Gustafsson; Bo Edvardsson; Lars Witell; Bernd Stauss; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; New Service Development; Service Innovation; New Product Development; Customer Involvement; User Involvement; Market Research; Market Orientation; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; Business Administration; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : Given today’s industry dynamics, new service development is becoming increasingly important to the competitiveness, growth, and survival of organizations. Unfortunately, new service development has proven to be a complex and difficult task. READ MORE

  7. 15. User-involved service innovation : Three participating perspectives on co-creation

    Author : Carina Sjödin; Magnus Wiktorsson; Bengt Köping Olsson; Anna-Lena Carlsson; Per Kristensson; Mattias Elg; Mälardalens högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; open innovation; user involvement; co-creation; service logic; Innovation and Design; innovation och design;

    Abstract : The involvement of customers and other stakeholders in the innovation process is proposed to be a key success factor and something that makes companies more competitive. As a consequence, more and more organizations alter their innovation strategy accordingly. READ MORE